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Declare Victory or Failure
Whenever you start a project, you should have a plan for finishing it. One outcome is to declare victory, to find that moment when you have satisfied your objectives and reached a goal. The other outcome, which feels like a … Continue reading
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Tagged Choice, Seth Godin, Success
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How To Succeed (Advice from Seth Godin)
Advice from Seth Godin: You don’t need all of these, and some are mutually exclusive (while others are not). And most don’t work, don’t scale or can’t be arranged: Be very focused on your goal and work on it daily … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, How to Win, Seth Godin, Success
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Your Team Is More Important Than Your Idea
The modern Hollywood approach was to put together a team for one project and then disband the team when production was finished. Â We thought that was dumb. Â When it comes down to it, the only way to make a good … Continue reading
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Tagged Idea, Imagine, Jonah Lehrer, Pixar, Plan, Success, Team
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Plodding Wins The Race
The hare was once boasting of his speed before the other animals. “I have never yet been beaten,” he said. Â “I challenge anyone here to race with me.” The Tortoise said quietly, “I accept your challenge.” “That’s funny,” said the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesop, Fable, Success, Work Ethic
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Happiness Obligation
Other people don’t have an obligation to make you happy. You have an obligation to those around you to be happy. Â Even if you’re not, you have an obligation to appear happy. Â Fake it, if necessary. Don’t bum out your … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Rationality
Tagged Choice, Happiness, Life, Success
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You Can Decide To Be Happy
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Tagged Choice, Happiness, Psychology, Success
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What You Want
Alain de Botton with a good reminder: One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. A lot of the time our ideas about what it would mean to live successfully are not … Continue reading
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Tagged Desire, Dream, Happiness, Hope, Philosophy, Success
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Failure Gives Perspective
That was the lowest moment I had yet encountered in my life. The phones in my office were even quiet, which had never happened before. In fact, I suddenly had a lot of quiet time to think, and I reviewed … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Donald Trump, Failure, Success
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Why Sharing Your Goals Dooms You To Failure
If you want to accomplish something, it makes sense to tell people about it. After all, you might be able to collaborate with someone already working on something similar, or gain some ideas and insights from someone who has done … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Persuasion, Productivity, Psychology, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Failure, Goal, Productivity, Success
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Level of Difficulty Matters
Doing the same easy thing over and over again doesn’t usually lead to success. Â Of course, neither does taking on impossible tasks that never get off the ground. The better way is to constantly take on those things that seem … Continue reading
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Tagged Hard, Level of Difficulty, Life, Push, Success
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The Tim Ferriss Falacy
We’re now deep into the fourth generation of the self-help guru.  This generation shares much with its predecessors, including fondness for the shortcut.  People like Tim Ferriss have  made their name on finding and exploiting these shortcuts, or “hacks” as … Continue reading
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Tagged Fallacy, Skills, Success, Tim Ferriss, Work
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How To Succeed At Anything
Be so good they can’t ignore you. – Steve Martin Being good is easy to ignore. Lots of people are good. When you’re just good, you give someone else the power to decide your future. Whether it’s a hiring manager, … Continue reading
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Tagged good, Mike Tyson, Steve Martin, Success
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Questions
Spend any time with a 7 year old and you’ll enjoy a never ending series of whys and hows. Â Why does that happen? How does that work? Â Why can’t we do this? Â How can that be? But somewhere around 13 … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, How, Question, Success, Why
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It’s The People Who Realize “I Don’t Know Anything” Who Succeed
In every good piece of legal writing, there is a narrative. Â It’s a plain, easily digestible story that the writer wants you to follow. Â It cuts through jargon and pomp and circumstance and clues the judge in to what the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan Ariely, Narrative, Rationality, Story Telling, Success, Tyler Cowan
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Success and Failure: You’re Thinking About It Wrong
We dream that someday soon, someone will recognize our genius: a big time agent reads our script and signs us; a major creative director sees our work and is compelled to feature it; the CEO reads about a project we … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Career, Failure, Goal, Progress, Success
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